There is currently one P1 factory with an area of 2184 square meters, as well as three shops with an area of 1000 square meters, one shop with an area of 285 square meters, and two shops with an area of 225 square meters. Each 1000 square meter store sells 8 clothing items per week, totaling approximately 14000 pieces; Each store of 285 square meters and 225 square meters sells 8 clothing items per week, totaling approximately 4800 pieces.
Based on this calculation, the total weekly sales volume is approximately: 14000 pieces x 3 stores+4800 pieces x 3 stores=56400 pieces.
The factory currently has 4 production lines, including:
Expensive clothing production line: equipped with 16 laser cutting machines, 24 industrial sewing machines, 2 input stations, and 2 output stations;
Cheap clothing production line: equipped with 8 laser cutting machines, 16 industrial sewing machines, 2 input stations, and 2 output stations.
At present, the factory can produce about 8064 pieces of expensive clothing and 8064 pieces of cheap clothing per week, totaling about 16128 pieces. It can be seen that the current production capacity of the factory is far from meeting the sales demand.
If calculated based on a maximum of 16 stores supplied by one factory, the maximum quantity of clothing that the factory needs to produce per week is about 224000 pieces (i.e. 14000 pieces x 16), and the minimum is about 76800 pieces (i.e. 4800 pieces x 16).
In response to the above capacity gap, the following three improvement plans can be considered:
Option 1: Add a factory
Setting up multiple factories to meet sales demand may lead to an imbalance in the quantity of products produced between factories and stores, as well as between multiple factories, increasing coordination and management difficulties.
Option 2: Expand the factory scale
Expanding the factory area to 10 times its current size will significantly increase production line layout and related workload.
Based on the above analysis, I strongly recommend adopting the third option: reducing the production time of individual products to 1/10 of the current level, including shortening the production time of other products such as gemstones and electronic products, and synchronously improving the operational efficiency of input and output stations, thereby effectively improving overall production capacity without significantly increasing facility and manpower investment.